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Chapter 5 The Great Election: The Emperor¡¯s Armored Face Part 2 Introduction 120 Minutes of Imperial Violence

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    Christmas 1881, August, along the coast of Fujian.

    Under the blue sea and sky in southern China, the sea breeze blows, and the sea waves are layered. In the eyes of the flying seabirds, a ship appears in the beautiful line where the sea and the sky meet. First, it is the tip of the mast, and then the sail and chimney.  , and finally the shuttle-like hull, which seemed to slowly climb up, like the hair of a paintbrush pulling straight down on the blue stone ball.

    This ship is not big, and its technology is not advanced. It is a small wooden-hulled, steam-sailed, dual-powered ship. It seems that it cannot bear to disturb the summer seascape. It does not turn on the steam engine to emit annoying black smoke, but only fills the tank with water.  The sails were lifted, and the white sails were filled with wind force and fully stretched forward, as if they had grown white wings, flying forward on the waves as nimbly as seagulls with orange-red hulls.

    This two-masted boat is called "Yang Rui". It was originally a Song Dynasty ship. It was leased by a rich man in the Shanghai concession. The rent was not expensive, 1,300 taels a year. It was specially used by the Qing Dynasty to travel from Shanghai Ningbo to Hong Kong Haijing.  Freight and passenger transport.

    However, its ticket and freight prices are not cheap. Its advantage over the monopoly shipping group is that it turns a blind eye to the identity of the cargo and passengers, casually glances at the passport, or records the cargo according to the customer's instructions; if this happens  If something goes wrong during the inspection, the monopoly company will have to pay a large fine. If something happens to this ship, maybe the ship owner will just let the company go bankrupt and then change the brand.

    This is also the reason why passengers do not choose cheap tickets from monopoly companies. They are bought to serve some people who don¡¯t want to see the light of day, and may have some illegal activities; or they are in a hurry and have no choice.  There was no time to wait for regular passenger and cargo ships.

    Because the sea breeze is strong and the scenery is beautiful.  Guests stepped out of the sweltering cabin doors one after another to enjoy the breeze on the upper deck.

    The journey is boring.  The guests chatted with each other. Some became friends as soon as they got on the boat, while others seemed to be withdrawn and ignored everyone.

    Fu Renyong sat on the tea table under the awning, holding a tea cup and looking at the people on the deck.

    He is a well-dressed young man with a fair complexion, thick short eyebrows but a pair of thin eyes, a flat nose, and a medium build.  He has a delicate mustache and is wearing a silk robe and mandarin jacket. When he crosses his legs, he reveals traditional mille-feuille-soled cloth shoes. A silver pocket watch chain hangs from the mandarin jacket. There is an exquisite jade ring on his finger.  There was also a footman dressed in a short coat standing beside him to wait on him. At first glance, he looked like a successful businessman from the Qing Dynasty.

    ¡°But his goods are actually antiques dug up from the tombs of the Ming emperors, and he is a cultural relics smuggler.

    ¡°However, he seems to be a person who likes to gossip.  He was whispering to the attendant behind him about the guests in front of him:

    "The fat man in room three smelled of opium. I heard he was the accountant who ran away with money";

    "Which company is he involved in?"

    "That thin man is from Room 5. We played mahjong yesterday. Maybe he is a spy from the Huai Army";

    "Xiao Li, who did you listen to? It's not necessarily true, right? Judging from that posture, it must be just so that this ship can give him false shipping tickets and freight invoices."

    "It is said that the young couple named Li holding the child were anxious to go home to see a seriously ill relative."

    "That's a loss. The ticket for this boat is expensive."

    "Over the railing, those two always peek at people out of the corner of their eyes. I heard that Annan stowaways."

    "Why, you can't survive in Shanghai anymore. Are you going to Haijing again?"

    "There seems to be a Japanese in cabin No. 8. He is sneaky. He originally brought six people on board, but now he is the only one in the cabin. He has never been seen leaving the cabin during the day. Everyone says he is a human trafficker  "

    "Human traffickers? Damn it, that kind of person's 'goods' won't have fake passports and certificates of good citizenship, and they can't even speak Chinese. If they are found out, they will be in trouble! Don't implicate us!"

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    The two were discussing happily when two more people came in from the shadow of the awning. Fu Renyong looked up and immediately stood up with a smile on his face and clasped his fists in greeting. He said with a smile: "Mr. Kishida Ginka and Mr. Nobi Tadao are also here."  Are you here for some fresh air? Please sit down, please sit down."

    The visitors were two Japanese, one middle-aged and one young. The middle-aged man was wearing a well-fitting suit, with kind eyebrows, curly hair, and a bushy beard. When he saw Fu Renyong, he nodded and bowed because there is no fist-clenching ceremony in Japan. He bowed and came over again.  Reach out to shake hands affectionately, appearing polite;

    The young man had a Japanese bun and a nendanhu, and he was also dressed more flamboyantly: a large Japanese robe, wooden clogs at his feet, and a Japanese sword in his waist. He kept his hands in his arms very arrogantly, with an expression on his face.  They look very fierce; but for people who often go to Haisong area in Shanghai, Japanese people dressed like this are not uncommon.??continues:

    "However, wolves always want to eat meat. I feel that if I were the Emperor of the Sea, the next target would not be Japan. There is no better country than the Ming Dynasty: the origins are the same, the beliefs are the same, the culture is the same, the system is the same, and the territory is the same.  If it is connected, prosperous in industry and commerce, has the right size, and has no powerful allies, the other provinces of the Qing Kingdom will be just fat; if it wins the Ming Kingdom, it will have fine bones and get twice the result with half the effort."

    Fu Renyong was silent for a full minute and put on a smile with difficulty: "I am a dual nationality of the Qing and Song dynasties, but the Ming Dynasty is the place where my goods come from. I don't want this."

    However, what Fu Renyong roared in his heart was: "I heard that the court of the Hai Song Dynasty had a saying: the belief in bloodless sacrifices is water without a source, the reform of bloodless sacrifices is a tree without roots, and the bloodless sacrifices  The rise of the Song Dynasty is nonsense! Now the blood of the Christians of the Hai Song Dynasty has fertilized the land of Annan and broken the dog chain of the French white people. Maybe the amount of blood is enough for the Hai Song Dynasty to control Annan and become one of the great powers in East Asia; but your Song Dynasty  The country is in a corner of peace, colluding with the great powers, and even providing free military loans to the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. You have no ambition to restore the Han family's country, and no ambition to unify the world and get rid of the exploitation of the great powers. Although the Ming Dynasty was small, it relied on gods and Han  When the country was founded, the patriots of the Han Dynasty who were willing to shed blood for the Ming Kingdom were no less than the imperial knights of the Song Dynasty! If the Song Dynasty wanted to annex the Ming Kingdom, it would have to be God¡¯s special grace, because there is a sea of ??blood here in the Ming Kingdom waiting to be sacrificed to God!" (  To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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